Gerold Frank

Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 - September 17, 1998) was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote a number of celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of biography. His two best-known books are The Boston Strangler, 1966, later made into a movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and an investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King in An American Death. Frank was born in 1907 in Cleveland. His father was a tailor and owned a dress shop. Frank graduated from Ohio State University and later moved to Greenwich Village with the hope of becoming a poet. Later he landed a job on a newspaper in Cleveland and published pieces in The New Yorker and The Nation. He married Lillian, and had two...